RICHLAND — A former Hanford supervisor has been sentenced to 30 days in jail, three months of home detention and a fine of $34,146 after pleading guilty to timecard fraud.
The Tri-City Herald reports Daniel Niebuhr was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court after pleading guilty last fall.
Niebuhr was the first defendant to be sentenced in Hanford cases related to timecard fraud after an investigation that lasted for years. Some other defendants have been acquitted in the case.
The fraud occurred under CH2M Hill Hanford Group, which held the Department of Energy’s tank farm contract at Hanford from 1999 to 2008.
CH2M agreed in 2013 to pay $18.5 million to settle civil and criminal allegations of defrauding taxpayers through widespread timecard fraud at Hanford.
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